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✨ syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work(9) ✨

okay bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work(9), and it's literally about handling one time work before returning to user mode. 🫶

💖 NAME 💖

syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work — Handle one time work before returning to user mode. 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work (struct pt_regs *regs );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• regs — Pointer to currents pt_regs. That's the whole argument list, bestie — just this one pointer. ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

This is Step 1 of syscall_exit_to_user_mode, with the same calling convention. No cap. 🔥

The caller must invoke steps 2-3 of syscall_exit_to_user_mode afterwards. Like, after this one — mandatory, bestie. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./include/linux/entry-common.h
• arch_ptrace_report_syscall_permit_entry(9)
• syscall_enter_from_user_mode_work(9)
• enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack(9)
• syscall_enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack(9)
• arch_ptrace_report_syscall_exit(9)
• syscall_exit_work(9)
• syscall_exit_to_user_mode(9)

xoxo, your kernel bestie 💖 — dropping this from ./include/linux, dated October 2026. 🎀